During meeting between the National Commission for Human Rights and the Civil Society umbrella ,they agreed on the fact that citizens still have less participation in policy making and implementation of projects impacting on their daily lives.
Rwandan civil society through CLADHO,vividly highlights the fact that citizens are not full integrated in the policy making process , and according to it, this hinders them from having a say on what is being done for them as projects.
Some local leaders point that issues relating to district budget management should be discussed upon by all stakeholders including inhabitants who have practical benefits from these very projects
Mr Nkurunziza Alex objects that in Rwanda there exists a significant lack of information.
He explains:
“One day when we were at the National Assembly to discuss about national budget, we told them that the budget issues are still unknown by a big majority of Rwandans and that this affects the effectiveness of projects implementation”.
For him this helps to pinpoint a less important participation of population in projects which predicts the climax of poverty
Among other topics they discussed about include financially and technically poor budget that the Civil Society faces, legal issues that weaken their operational activities and so on and so forth.
The National Commission for Human Rights plans to strengthen Civil society’ structures so to equip it with enough tools to sustain itself.
Last year ,as NCHR indicates, in close partnership with civil society ,it had been able to solve not less than 1300 issues relating to different fields.
Daddy Sadiki Ribangura
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